Erik the Red's Land: the land that never was |
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Authors: | Frode Skarstein |
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Institution: | Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Environmental Centre, NO-9296 Tromsø, Norway, |
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Abstract: | In May this year, a Briton named Alex Hartley gamely claimed as his personal territory a tiny island in Svalbard that had been revealed by retreating ice. Svalbard's islands have a long history of claims and counter-claims by adventurers of diverse nations: the question of who owns the Arctic is an old one. In this next article in our unreviewed biographical/historical series, Frode Skarstein describes Norway's bid to wrest a corner of Greenland from the Danish crown 75 years ago. |
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